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I was thinking of including something in the Aftermath thread of who currently holds the Title Belt. One way to do this is to say that since the BCS era is over, that FSU currently has the belt. But gently caress FSU, so the other way would be to look at the first BCS winner and track it from there which would give us a current winner of... well, take a look and see and make sure my reasoning is sound. Also, go ahead and guess right now who you think the Belt Holder right now. Don't peak or cheat! Bold indicates who owns the belt at the end of the season. 1999: 1998 BCS Champs are Tennessee Volunteers Florida takes the belt 9/18/99 winning 23-21 Alabama takes the belt from Florida 3 weeks later Tennessee re-earns the belt 2 weeks later Arkansas wins it two week later LSU would take it despite a 1-7 conference record and no bowl game 2000: LSU holds it for 3 weeks until losing to Auburn Mississippi State takes the belt from Auburn after 3 weeks LSU retakes it the following week Arkansas takes it after a month UNLV takes it from Arkansas the following week, making it the first non-SEC belt holder and closing out the season 2001: Arkansas rips it right back from UNLV in the season opener Tennessee wins it the next week Georgia wins after a two week reign Florida takes it after 4 weeks Tennessee takes it after a 5 week stretch LSU retakes it the following week in the SECCG and holds it until the seasons end 2002: Virginia Tech finally gets something to put int their trophy case, beating the Tigers in the opener Pittsburgh takes it after a record 8 weeks The U takes it two weeks later and holds it 3 weeks until the Robbery in the Desert giving it to Ohio State 2003: Wisconsin takes the belt after 6 weeks Purdue has it after a whole week Another week, another B1G team, going to Michigan Michigan holds it 4 weeks until giving the PAC their first appearance with USC 2004: USC goes wire to wire (I am not dealing with the bullshit vacated wins) 2005: USC would hold it another 12 weeks before losing it to Texas in the BCS NCG. 2006: Texas would only hold it 2 weeks due to an early season matchup with Ohio State. Florida would take it after 11 weeks, but not only took the belt but also pantsed Ohio State in front of everyone 2007: Florida would hold it 5 weeks until Auburn takes it LSU would take it three weeks later Arkansas took it after 3OT after a 4 week run Missouri took it in a bowl game 2 weeks later 2008: Missouri held it for 6 weeks before giving it to Oklahoma State Texas would take it 2 weeks later Texas Tech would raid it from Bevo a week later Oklahoma gets it two weeks after that Florida would win it again in the BCSCG after 2 weeks 2009: Florida would hold it the entire regular season, losing it to Alabama in the SECCG after 12 weeks Alabama would hold it for the remainder of the season 2010: Alabama held it for 6 weeks before losing it to SpurDog. Kentucky finally gets it shot at glory taking it the following week. Georgia gets it a week Florida takes it for 2 weeks before South Carolina takes it again for 3 weeks until Cam Newton stole it harder than a laptop Auburn finishes the season with it 2011: Auburn holds it until losing to Clemson after 4 weeks total Georgia Tech surprises all taking it after 6 weeks After only a week Virginia Tech gets it a second time Clemson takes it back after 3 weeks West Virginia wins it by what is likely the largest margin of victory in the Orange Bowl 2012: West Virginia holds it 6 weeks before losing to Texas Tech Kansas State uses dark magic to win it after 2 weeks 3 weeks later, Baylor wins it and finishes out the season 2013: After 13 weeks, Baylor cedes the belt back to Oklahoma State Oklahoma takes it a week later and finishes out the season As of now, Oklahoma hasn't lost, meaning Oklahoma is the current Belt Holder! Or FSU, if you want to ignore the BCS. Fun facts: Longest streak is USC (24 weeks). Number of times the Belt Winner and NCG winner are same: 8 Florida was won the belt the most (5 times) and held it the longest cummulatively (27 weeks) Only non AQ team to win was UNLV. Teams that have never won the belt surprisingly: Oregon, Notre Dame, Penn State, Stanford, Florida State Just thought it would be interesting to trace out.
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Sep 18, 2014 23:47
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Shouldn't the title belt start with the Rutgers Queensmen in 1869?
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Sep 19, 2014 00:27
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Bip Roberts posted:Shouldn't the title belt start with the Rutgers Queensmen in 1869? If you want to go back to then, be my guest.
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Sep 19, 2014 01:38
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Someone figure out who currently has the Piggly Wiggly Championship Belt.
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Sep 19, 2014 01:41
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R.D. Mangles posted:Someone figure out who currently has the Piggly Wiggly Championship Belt. Alabama
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Sep 19, 2014 01:46
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http://www.collegefootballbelt.com Of course some nerds have been keeping up with this since forever.
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Sep 19, 2014 02:14
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swickles posted:If you want to go back to then, be my guest. Rutgers 1869 Princeton 1870 Yale 1876 Princeton 1878 Harvard 1882 Yale 1882 Princeton 1885 Harvard 1887 Yale 1887 Princeton 1889 Yale 1890 Princeton 1893 Penn 1894 Lafayette 1896 Penn 1897 Harvard 1898 Yale 1900 Harvard 1901 Yale 1902 Princeton 1903 Navy 1904 Swathmore 1904 Penn 1905 Swathmore 1906 Navy 1906 Harvard 1907 Carlisle 1907 Harvard 1908 Yale 1909 Army 1910 Harvard 1910 Princeton 1911 Harvard 1912 Cornell 1915 Harvard 1916 Tufts 1916 This is where sports reference broke as they don't have a page for tufts football Edit: Tufts lost their next game to Princeton. Bip Roberts fucked around with this message at 02:46 on Sep 19, 2014 |
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Sep 19, 2014 02:15
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Bip Roberts posted:Shouldn't the title belt start with the Rutgers Queensmen in 1869? I think there's a cool stat that no matter where you start, it all aligns pretty quickly post WW2.
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Sep 19, 2014 02:18
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Or this: Penn State defeats Miami in January 1987 to receive the first Crystal Football. 1987: Alabama defeats Penn State. Florida defeats Alabama (a week later). LSU defeats Florida (we're only in week four of the season at this point). Alabama defeats LSU (a month later). Notre Dame defeats Alabama (a week later) Penn State defeats Notre Dame (a week later) Clemson beats Penn State in the Citrus Bowl. 1988: Florida State defeats Clemson in week 3, wins out. 1989: Southern Miss defeats FSU in week 1 Mississippi State defeats Southern Miss the next week Georgia defeats Miss State in week 3 South Carolina defeats Georgia a week later NC State defeats South Carolina UVA defeats NC State a week later Illinois defeats UVA in Citrus Bowl 1990: Arizona over Illinois immediately Cal over Arizona Washington over Cal UCLA over Washington Southern Cal over UCLA Michigan State over USC in Sun Bowl 1991: Central Michigan over Michigan State  Central Michigan ties ToledoWeek later: Bowling Green defeats Central Michigan, wins out 1992: Ohio State defeats Bowling Green Wisconsin over OSU Iowa over Wisconsin Purdue over Iowa Michigan over Purdue Michigan ties IllinoisMichigan ties Ohio State1993: Notre Dame over Michigan Boston College over Notre Dame 1994: Michigan over Boston College Penn State over Michigan 1995: Wisconsin over Penn State Ohio State over Wisconsin Michigan over Ohio State Texas A&M over Michigan in Alamo Bowl 1996: BYU over TAMU Washington over BYU Notre Dame over Washington Southern California over Notre Dame 1997: Florida State over USC Florida over FSU 1998: Tennessee over Florida Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh, kinda weird how that works out there isn't it? I started with Penn State so I was extremely surprised at the end. Would have been less surprising if I'd worked backwards. But, uh, drat. Sash! fucked around with this message at 02:56 on Sep 19, 2014 |
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Sep 19, 2014 02:54
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One day the MAC shall hold the belt
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Sep 19, 2014 03:12
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Yeah the interesting thing about this is that regardless of which team you start with it doesn't seem to take a whole lot of time to converge with the original Princeton-Rutgers line. A more interesting idea I remember seeing somewhere or other was a lineal "championship" that instead went to the loser, with the condition that it couldn't leave FBS and any tie games encountered pre-1996 would result in both teams coming away with it. As I recall, the starting team was 1982 Northwestern, due to the losing streak. No idea who would have that one now. e: Oh, here it is. Hasn't been updated since the 2012 season, but the holder at that time was Southern Miss. If I'm not spacing out, the trajectory after that would be to UAB at the end of 2013 and then to Troy in Week 1. ee: Also, Sash, you messed up in 1990 (USC lost to Notre Dame before they lost to Michigan State) but ended up back on the main track anyway. Weird. Basil Hayden fucked around with this message at 00:48 on Sep 26, 2014 |
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Sep 20, 2014 22:56
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Bip Roberts posted:Shouldn't the title belt start with the Rutgers Queensmen in 1869? I knew this was floating around somewhere. 1869 to when the Belt guys linked elsewhere in the thread started in 1972. Some rather unfamiliar entities end up holding the belt in the earlier years, including half a dozen small schools in Pennsylvania, West Virginia Wesleyan, a long-defunct athletic club, and two military teams (almost ten years before the US entered WWII, surprisingly).
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Sep 26, 2014 01:19
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Congrats to TCU on winning the Belt! Your first defense is against Baylor, then Ok State, and then Texas Tech, so congrats on having it for 3 weeks at most.
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Oct 5, 2014 10:17
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swickles posted:Congrats to TCU on winning the Belt! Your first defense is against Baylor, then Ok State, and then Texas Tech, so congrats on having it for 3 weeks at most. lol TCU will not lose to Tech
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Oct 5, 2014 12:24
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Thermos H Christ posted:lol TCU will not lose to Tech But they did lose to Baylor today, so congrats to them!
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Oct 12, 2014 03:45
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It's all set up for us to take our belt back this season.
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Oct 12, 2014 03:46
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Basil Hayden posted:e: Oh, here it is. Hasn't been updated since the 2012 season, but the holder at that time was Southern Miss. If I'm not spacing out, the trajectory after that would be to UAB at the end of 2013 and then to Troy in Week 1. Also, remembering this thread exists, I'm wondering how much finagling it would take to have a version of this "shame" variant starting with Princeton after the first game in 1869 that doesn't just disappear into the ether or end up stuck in DIII somewhere...
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Oct 12, 2014 04:06
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My suggestion for this thread is to announce the new holder every time with a Howard Finkel "and...NEWWWWWWWWWWWW" inflection.
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Oct 12, 2014 21:34
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This thing is just gonna bounce all around the Big 12 isn't it? West Virginia, please don't burn the belt as a victory celebration.
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Oct 19, 2014 04:37
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swickles posted:This thing is just gonna bounce all around the Big 12 isn't it? West Virginia, please don't burn the belt as a victory celebration.
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swickles posted:This thing is just gonna bounce all around the Big 12 isn't it? West Virginia, please don't burn the belt as a victory celebration. Just like it bounced around the SEC the recent past and previous cycles in the BIG and Pac, the belt gets stuck in a territory.
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